Posts by Rob Moir 232 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Feb 2008
and to be honest, the last thing he'd get off me by pulling the "don't you know who I am" line is good service. From what I can see and recall of his various doings, he's one of the most ignorant and inconsiderate people to ever be involved in the IT field. And considering the range of socially challenged people who seem to be attracted to the profession that's not an accolade to be proud of now, is it?
I can't help thinking that the average home consumer doesn't set up a network login for each person in their house. You might, sure, but if you're reading the register then you're not an average computer user.
I love the mac mini I have at home as a media centre. I have the normal version sitting underneath my TV and it's great - silent, reliable, fast, plays everything I throw at it... but I don't see the point of a mac mini server like this for the home. Or for anything larger than a very small business.
It's interesting that I updated Safari on my Mac this morning before setting off to work, and it told me that a reboot of the whole OS was needed.
So were Microsoft ahead of their time, or are Apple repeating some of Microsoft's mistakes on the desktop in much the same way that Windows smartphone 7 (or whatever its called) is much like the iOS of 3 years ago including leaving out things like cut and paste.
"You can call them stubborn, ignorant, annoying whatever, but the fact still remains that they don't want too much of a change. I can add a classic menu, but "it's just not the same" in their words."
I wouldn't presume to call someone stubborn or ignorant or anything else for disliking changes to something they know works well, but it's interesting that Microsoft are *at the same time* both derided for never abandoning backwards compatibility and never making real changes to their OS; and at the same time derided for making changes and abandoning backwards compatibility.
I dislike change for the sake of change myself, but if you're going to get slammed no matter what, you might as well just do what you think is best and to hell with the critics.
@Chris Thomas Alpha
Are you sure you've thought about what you're actually saying? First you say it must be Rovio's fault then you go on to say "the real interesting part comes from this info is that it's not actually angry birds who are affected, lots of apps on my hero do crazy stuff"
Please think about what you've just said... if it's "lots of apps" doing "crazy stuff" then maybe, just maybe, it isn't down to any one of them but rather the platform?
free/cheap software and no confusing licence terms. Let's look at the table and see...
RHEL Server, Premium, Unlimited Guests x64 $3,249 a year or $9,260 for 3 years.
Hardly cheap.
RHEL Server, Premium, Unlimited Guests x64, despite saying "Unlimited guests", it wants to charge $307 a guest.
Hardly "no confusing licence terms".
Remind me again why I should care? Yes I know about CentOS but this is what RHEL want us to buy and I don't see much difference between this and Microsoft. Except that Windows Server works out cheaper for us...
$3133.7 for a 'good' bug and $500 for a trivial one eh? When one appeals to people who do it for money, one has to be sure that you're outbidding your rivals. Let's hope the people who exploit security holes for profit don't decide to offer $3140 or $550 eh?
"Google's blog post announcing the new program makes clear that proofs of concept should attack only accounts controlled by the researcher. "
So no driving past Google executives houses grabbing data from their wifi then?
"Written following the crash of an external disk drive used for Time Machine backup of a Macbook."
Another "well MY hard disk just crashed so I've had an epiphany about backups" articles. Lazy journalism at its best. Will we get a review of pens next week after your biro runs out?
If we're talking "catchup" then earlier versions of Windows Mobile were able to present a good amount of information on the home screen long before android ever existed. And I'm sure they were far from the first to do so...
In the IT world, If you think your favourite toy was the first to do something then this is far more the sign of insufficient research on your part than it is a sign that you own a really unique device.
on the one hand, you clearly have a point there. On the other hand, I would say that Apple really should have spoke to the creators of the app before using it's UI as an example.
Not only is that simply the polite thing to do, it also heads off public relations own goals like the one they've just scored.
What _is_ up with jobs lately. I can't help thinking that a few years ago he would have been wise to this and would have thought twice before telling people to just 'hold their phones differently' to get around a hardware bug. Apple are slipping.
It's the same as anything else. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it does not and what you have to watch out for are the foaming fanatics that try and force you to use (or avoid using) something based on their prejudices rather than the needs of the business.
Quite simple really.
"So without Cocoa, expect the next version of Office to be large, monolithic and crash-prone applications, just like their predecessors."
So non-Cocoa apps are automatically bad are they?
Apps like iTunes, Final Cut Pro, etc are all still waiting to migrate to Cocoa.
There's nothing magical about Cocoa, and the real "Fail" is in all you people who think that there is.
Finder was converted to being a Cocoa App in Snow Leopard wasn't it?
And you know what? Finder + Cocoa = Finder.
"The ghost builder will always have to make a fresh copy every few months or so or the IT tech involved in the deployment will have to sit around and confirm all windows updates are installed as end users rarely ever execute the installs themselves and can take an eternity to download and install when they should be doing their job instead."
If only Microsoft had some kind of free tool to handle this, or 3rd parties sold very sophisticated tools that also handled it...
"Perhaps if Microsoft will one day make updates obsolete."
So are you saying you would prefer to buy an operating system and not see any improvements for it, of any kind at all, until you buy a new operating system. Sorry but that seems like a bad idea to me.
First you say this would never have happened if we had the source code, then you say that someone needs to sponsor the dev process in open source.
So, er, it could have happened if we had the source code, actually, if no sponsor was available? So really we're back to business case for the dev and testing effort needed. How is that different to the decision Adobe have to make?
"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS uses microblogging client Gwibber to combine streams from Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StatusNet, and such services through a Me Menu."
Right. That's a great idea. I want to have twatter and the like integrated into my operating system about as much as I want a painful infected cyst integrated into my body.
Certainly no-one appears to have thought how this 3d effect is supposed to do anything for those of us who are partially sighted or blind in just one eye. Other than give us a headache that is.
You know, when you *can't* see the pseudo-3D nonsense even if you wanted to it doesn't take long to realise how ordinary Avatar is without all that rubbish. Pocahontos in space, at best.
"they've stuffed some things in (what I find to be) very strange places, "macros" under "view" for instance or "headers and footers" under "insert" rather than "page layout"."
Wasn't the menu commands in earlier versions of office "View->Macros" and I'm quite certain that it was "Insert>Header and Footer".
Not so strange really.
I wouldn't lump Google Apps and Open Office in together. The choice between OO and MSO is a straight choice between two basically similar products and either OO does what you need or your requirement for MSO is enough to justify paying for it, but fundamentally, whichever one you choose, you have a conventional desktop app that's available as long as your computer is, and stores documents locally (to your LAN at least).
If you choose google apps then you're doing the cloud thing, essentially saying that you don't mind not being able to do any work at all if the gas board digging up the street outside your office cuts the internet cable in exchange for being able to work "anywhere" (provided "anywhere" has a good internet connection) and that you trust Google more than Microsoft for some ludicrous reason that ignores the fact that all corporations are the same.
You can probably tell I'm not a fan of the cloud thing... but either way I don't see there's any difference between OO and MSO when the choice is to decide between (either/any of) those or Google Apps.
That's problematic for Microsoft phones for a start - they aren't actually Microsoft's phones are they? They're HTC's or HP's or whoevers.
HTC did actually produce free, legal upgrades for at least some of their phones mind you, but a lot of phone carriers didn't release the upgrades that HTC had produced to their customers.
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